Is this game this dialogue heavy throughout?

[Angel el Bizco]

I played about an hour and there's more dialogue/cutscenes that have little to no point than gameplay.

I started to doubt steam reviews for anime games when everyone was ranting and raving about Chrono Ark's story in the reviews and it's some edgy middle school level writing.

Is this game just 50 hours of visual novel?

[aidanfilson25]

There's plenty of gameplay (see the numerous lategame fights that can easily take at least an hour to finish) but if you don't like story driven games your results may vary for Library of Ruina, or any of Project Moon's other games. The story is a big reason why people play them.

[sun6000]

Early game fights are pretty simple and admittedly are a bit dull, i can tell you that come chapter 3 is when things kick up by a notably degree.

That might sound like it takes awhile, but there's only 14 fights required between start of game (minus abnormality battles) Given how fast early battles go, you'll get there pretty quickly.

[Dice_24K]

The WR speedrun of this game is 6.5 hours. The speedrun skips all dialogue and goes all out with a firing squad to make the fights as short as possible -> and it's still really long.

There is a lot of story, no doubt, but there is no filler. They aren't gonna take two hours of your life doing nothing but hanging out at some beach for no reason. All the story that's available is there for a reason -> and it all feeds to the major events happening later in the plot.

"It all comes together" is a bold claim, I know, but I can guarantee you, that right after you beat the game -> if you replay the game, watching the cutscenes again, you'll be doing that "Pointing Rick Dalton" meme from the start. Yes, even during the Rats cutscene; the game pulls it off amazingly well.

[Angel el Bizco]

Thanks guys, I am enjoying the story so fa but was afraid to be disapointed like chrono ark

ill play past the refund window

[mbran031]

I also skipped the cut-scenes up until a certain fight that presented a boss enemy so far removed from what I was fighting previously that I was left wondering 'what the ever-loving flying ♥♥♥♥ happened in that cut-scene I just skipped'. After going back and watching the scenes up until that point I was actually hooked on the world building and plot that PM were creating. It was pretty interesting learning the reasons people were willing to fight and die against a bunch of goofy ahh librarians.

[Dice_24K]

Originally posted by mbran031:

I also skipped the cut-scenes up until a certain fight that presented a boss enemy so far removed from what I was fighting previously that I was left wondering 'what the ever-loving flying ♥♥♥♥ happened in that cut-scene I just skipped'. After going back and watching the scenes up until that point I was actually hooked on the world building and plot that PM were creating. It was pretty interesting learning the reasons people were willing to fight and die against a bunch of goofy ahh librarians.

Yeah... some cutscenes have STUFF HAPPEN. lol
There are times where you would think "Ah, I know where this is going" but you'd be wrong.

[Minh]

Yes.

Originally posted by Angel "El Bizco":

Is this game just 50 hours of visual novel?

No.

[A Terraria Mage]

Originally posted by Dice_24K:

The WR speedrun of this game is 6.5 hours. The speedrun skips all dialogue and goes all out with a firing squad to make the fights as short as possible -> and it's still really long.

There is a lot of story, no doubt, but there is no filler. They aren't gonna take two hours of your life doing nothing but hanging out at some beach for no reason. All the story that's available is there for a reason -> and it all feeds to the major events happening later in the plot.

"It all comes together" is a bold claim, I know, but I can guarantee you, that right after you beat the game -> if you replay the game, watching the cutscenes again, you'll be doing that "Pointing Rick Dalton" meme from the start. Yes, even during the Rats cutscene; the game pulls it off amazingly well.

The story is good, one of the few games where I don't mash through the dialog because it's the same boring slop. Even if I knew ahead of time some major plot points (like sad children and the dark quietness) I still was hyped up and wanted to know how it got to those points.

[NecterSecter]

So far the first 5-10 hours is just nonstop talking about nothing. So far the story is trash. There is sooo much filler its not even funny. At least so far, it is beyond tedious to get through the badly written dialogue. Starting to think all the positive comments are just fanboys of the studio. The gameplay isn't bad but the never ending useless dialogue is terrible. I've spent a bout 5 hours reading so far and all that happened is i found out im in a library putting bad guys into books.

[A Terraria Mage]

Originally posted by NecterSecter:

So far the first 5-10 hours is just nonstop talking about nothing. So far the story is trash. There is sooo much filler its not even funny. At least so far, it is beyond tedious to get through the badly written dialogue. Starting to think all the positive comments are just fanboys of the studio. The gameplay isn't bad but the never ending useless dialogue is terrible. I've spent a bout 5 hours reading so far and all that happened is i found out im in a library putting bad guys into books.

Who are you, the switch reviewer? There’s less filler in this than in the fast food you probably get.

[memmrize]

Originally posted by NecterSecter:

So far the first 5-10 hours is just nonstop talking about nothing. So far the story is trash. There is sooo much filler its not even funny. At least so far, it is beyond tedious to get through the badly written dialogue. Starting to think all the positive comments are just fanboys of the studio. The gameplay isn't bad but the never ending useless dialogue is terrible. I've spent a bout 5 hours reading so far and all that happened is i found out im in a library putting bad guys into books.

let me guess, you scroll on tiktok for 20 hours a day

[Angel el Bizco]

Originally posted by memmrize:

Originally posted by NecterSecter:

So far the first 5-10 hours is just nonstop talking about nothing. So far the story is trash. There is sooo much filler its not even funny. At least so far, it is beyond tedious to get through the badly written dialogue. Starting to think all the positive comments are just fanboys of the studio. The gameplay isn't bad but the never ending useless dialogue is terrible. I've spent a bout 5 hours reading so far and all that happened is i found out im in a library putting bad guys into books.

let me guess, you scroll on tiktok for 20 hours a day

It is really poorly written.

[SpiderGlitch]

Originally posted by NecterSecter:

So far the first 5-10 hours is just nonstop talking about nothing. So far the story is trash. There is sooo much filler its not even funny. At least so far, it is beyond tedious to get through the badly written dialogue. Starting to think all the positive comments are just fanboys of the studio. The gameplay isn't bad but the never ending useless dialogue is terrible. I've spent a bout 5 hours reading so far and all that happened is i found out im in a library putting bad guys into books.

I dunno man. I've hit 7.5 hours (which isn't all that much more) and I'm loving the subplot around the Zwei Association. Plus all the other minor worldbuilding bits sprinkled around the early cutscenes/books (the Fingers, the cannibals in the backstreets, details about what Fixers and Offices are, etc.) are really interesting. And seeing the Sephirot interact with Angela makes them feel more human than they were (weren't?) in the first game.

I mean, a lot of it could be opinion, but I haven't run into anything I'd consider filler yet. Some stuff mostly unrelated to the main plot, sure, but it helps to flesh out the world/personality of characters.

[Hariman]

Originally posted by NecterSecter:

So far the first 5-10 hours is just nonstop talking about nothing. So far the story is trash. There is sooo much filler its not even funny. At least so far, it is beyond tedious to get through the badly written dialogue. Starting to think all the positive comments are just fanboys of the studio. The gameplay isn't bad but the never ending useless dialogue is terrible. I've spent a bout 5 hours reading so far and all that happened is i found out im in a library putting bad guys into books.

It's all character work and worldbuilding. There's honestly very little filler, but even if you've played Lobotomy Corporation there's not enough context to understand what's happening until later in the game.

[tadleszcz]

Originally posted by NecterSecter:

So far the first 5-10 hours is just nonstop talking about nothing. So far the story is trash. There is sooo much filler its not even funny. At least so far, it is beyond tedious to get through the badly written dialogue. Starting to think all the positive comments are just fanboys of the studio. The gameplay isn't bad but the never ending useless dialogue is terrible. I've spent a bout 5 hours reading so far and all that happened is i found out im in a library putting bad guys into books.

"Putting "bad guys" into books", it's apparently possible that PM haters are somehow even worse at reading than PM fans...